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hegelpd is the academic blog of the Classical German Philosophy research group at the University of Padua. The group, led by Luca Illetterati, Francesca Menegoni and Antonio Maria Nunziante, carries on a tradition started fifty years ago by Franco Chiereghin.
Since 2013, this website is a space for sharing resources, news and contributions for all those interested in these topics. We will provide updated news about events, workshops, conferences, calls for papers, publications and bibliographies related to Classical German Philosophy, as well as events involving our research group.
This blog is intended as a resource for all scholars, students and people interested in Classical German Thought and its relevance to contemporary philosophical and cultural debates.

ELISA BELLO received her PhD in Philosophy from the University of Padova in 2015 with a dissertation on the notion of unconscious in Hegel’s philosophy of subjective spirit. She is interested in classical German philosophy, psychology and history of medicine.

GIULIA BERNARD is a PhD student in Philosophy at the University of Padua. She completed a Double Degree Program under the joint supervision of the University of Jena and the University of Padua, where she defended her MA thesis on the problem of foundation in Hegel’s late philosophy. Her main research interests concern classical German philosophy (especially Hegel and Jacobi), philosophy of religion, systematic philosophy and the contemporary debate on non-foundationalism.

DANIELE BERTOLETTI got his Master’s Degree from the University of Padova, with a dissertation on the role of natural sciences in Hegel’s philosophy. After his Degree he spent a semester at the Institut d’histoire et de philosophie des sciences et des techniques (IHPST) in Paris. His main interest is the philosophy of nature in classical German philosophy. He is currently working as a high school teacher.

MICHELA BORDIGNON received her PhD in Philosophy from the University of Padova in 2011 with a dissertation on the notion of contradiction in Hegel’s Logic. The reworked version of the dissertation has been published under the title Ai limiti della verità. Il problema della contraddizione nella logica di Hegel (2015). Her main research interests concern the relationship between formal and speculative logic, on which she published many essays both in Italian and international journals. She is currently post-doc researcher at the Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (UFES). She is working on a research project on McDowell’s theory of the unboundedness of the conceptual and Hegel’s conception of objective thought.

FRANCESCO CAMPANA is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Padova. He studied and worked in Padua, Jena, Bochum, New York, Berlin, Naples. His main research interests include Classical German Philosophy, Philosophy of Art, and Philosophy of Literature. He has published the book The End of Literature, Hegel, and the Contemporary Novel (Palgrave Macmillan 2019).

IACOPO CHIARAVALLI is a PhD student at the University of Padova. His academic interests mainly concern the role of science during the rise and fall of Modern world. The topic of his research project is the influence of the 19th century mathematics on Husserl’s phenomenology.

LUCA CORTI received his PhD from the University of Padua in 2015. He has studied and worked at the universities of Florence, Padua, Freiburg i.b., and Chicago and has served as post-doctoral fellow at the Forschungszentrum für Klassische Deutsche Philosophie / Hegel-Archiv of the University of Bochum. Currently, he is the DAAD post-doctoral fellow at the University of Bonn’s International Center for Philosophy NRW. His main research interests are Classical German Philosophy, History of Modern Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind, and Theories of Normativity. He has published several articles on these topics, as well as the volumes Ritratti hegeliani (Carocci 2014) and Pensare l’esperienza (Pendragon 2016). He is also the Italian translator of two volumes of the New History of Western Philosophy by Sir A. Kenny (Einaudi 2012-2013).

ELEONORA CUGINI graduated at the University “La Sapienza” (Rome) with a dissertation on the notion of Wirklichkeit in Hegel’s Science of Logic. She is now a PhD student at the University of Padova. Her research interests mainly concern the relation between the logical aspect and the practical (especially social) dimension of Hegel’s philosophy.

DAVIDE DALLA ROSA is PhD student at the University of Padova. His doctoral dissertation concerns Kant’s general logic and some recent interpretations of it.
He has studied and has been visiting student at the LMU Munich, at the RUB Bochum and at the New College, Oxford.

ALESSANDRO ESPOSITO received his PhD in Philosophy from the University of Padova and from the University of Heidelberg with a dissertation on the psychology of “will” in Hegel’s Philosophy of Spirit. He worked under the supervision of Prof. Francesca Menegoni and Prof. Anton F. Koch. Previously he got his BA from the University of Florence and his MA from the University of Padova. His studies currently focus on the relation between theory and praxis in classical German philosophy. He is interested also in the relation between philosophy and the digital revolution.

MARCO FERRARI is a PhD student in Philosophy at the University of Padua. He is currently working on a thesis entitled: Beyond the Principle of Homeostasis. History and Critique of the Neoliberal Governmentality’s Epistemological Basis. He has studied at the universities of Paris and Padua where he got his MA degree with a thesis focused on the study of the Lacanian psychoanalysis’ philosophical and political implications. He is interested primarily in the interrogation of the modern politic thought, through classical German philosophy, psychoanalysis and contemporary French philosophy. He edited (together with P. Cesaroni and G. Minozzi) the Italian editions of L’être et l’événement (Mimesis 2018) and Logiques des mondes (Mimesis 2019) by Alain Badiou.

ANDREA GAMBAROTTO completed a Cotutelle Doctoral Degree Program under the joint supervision of the Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane (Florence) and the Institut d’histoire et de philosophie des sciences et des techniques (Paris). His main areas of expertise are classical German philosophy, philosophy of nature and philosophy of biology. He is currently developing a project on Hegel’s philosophy of biology.

SAŠA HRNJEZ is Marie-Sklodowska Curie research fellow at the University of Padova (project: “Toward a Philosophical Rethinking of Translation”). He studied philosophy in Novi Sad, Turin, Berlin and gained his PhD at the University of Turin (2015) with a work on Kant’s and Hegel’s philosophy, and thereafter he was a DAAD post-doc fellow at the Heidelberg University and a research fellow at the IISF in Naples. His current research fields are German idealism and philosophy of translation. Besides various articles in Italian, English, Serbian and German, and translations from Italian into Serbian as well, he is also the author of “Tertium Datur. Sintesi e mediazione tra criticismo e idealismo speculativo” (2017).

LUCA ILLETTERATI is a full professor of theoretical philosophy in the Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education and Applied Psychology at the University of Padova. His academic interests are classical German philosophy, the problem of philosophical understanding of nature between modern and contemporary philosophy, philosophical problems of translation, and the didactics of Philosophy.He is President of the Italian Society for Theoretical Philosophy and he is member of the Vorstand of the Internationale Hegel-Vereinigung.

GIULIA LA ROCCA got her Master Double Degree in Philosophical Sciences from University of Padua and Friedrich-Schiller-Universität of Jena, with a dissertation that interprets the Self-Movement of the Concept in Hegel’s Science of Logic as realisation of autonomy of Thought.

SILVIA LOCATELLI takes part in the MA joint degree program in Philosophy between the University of Padua and the “Friedrich Schiller” University of Jena. She spent a semester at Münster University and she got her Bachelor’s degree with a dissertation on the concepts of contradiction and limit in Hegel’s Science of Logic. Her academic interests concern Wittgenstein’s philosophy of mathematics and classical german idealism, with focus on Hegel’s logic and philosophy of nature.

ARIANNA LONGO is going to complete her PhD at the University of Padua, where she is currently writing her thesis on Hegel’s notion of philosophical subjectivity. She has studied at the universities of Padua, Leipzig and Paris (Panthéon Sorbonne and Paris-Sorbonne). Her research interests mainly concern classical German philosophy, history of metaphysics and epistemology.

GIOVANNA LUCIANO is attending a Joint Doctoral Degree Program between the Western Sydney University and the University of Padova. Her main field of study is classical German philosophy. Her research is properly focused on showing the relationship between Kant and Hegel. She is working on a thesis entitled Reason’s Self-Determination: Hegel’s Notion of Subjectivity of Thought through his Refutation of the Kantian “I-Think”.

ARMANDO MANCHISIis post-doctoral researcher at the University of Padova. He studied philosophy at the Universities of Florence, Padova and Tübingen, and received his PhD under the joint supervision of the Universities of Padova and Münster. He was also post-doctoral fellow at the Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici (Naples). His main research interests are classical German philosophy, metaethics, and moral epistemology. He published the book L’idea del bene in Hegel. Una teoria della normatività pratica (Verifiche, 2019). He also edited and translated the volume Antropologia pragmatista. Padova Lectures by Michael Quante (Padova University Press, 2020).

GIULIO MARIOTTINI is a MA student in Philosophy at the University of Padova. He graduated with a dissertation on the Hegelian concept of “speculative sentence”. His academic interests concern Hegel’s philosophy of nature, the contemporary debate on Hegel’s philosophy, particularly that linked to the concept of “naturalism”.

FRANCESCA MENEGONI is full professor of moral philosophy at the University of Padova – Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education and Applied Psychology. Her areas of interest include ethics and philosophy of action, philosophy of religion, classical German philosophy, especially Kant and Hegel. She was a member of the Executive Board of Società italiana di Studi Kantiani (1997-2004) and of the Vorstand der Internationalen Hegel-Vereinigung (2001-2017). She is editor of “Verifiche” and a member of the Wissenschaftlicher Beirat of “Hegel-Studien”. Among her recent publications: Hegel (Morcelliana, 2018).

GIOVANNA MIOLLI received her PhD in Philosophy from the University of Padova with a dissertation on the comparison between Hegel’s conception of truth and the contemporary Identity Theory of Truth. She was visiting student at the University of Sydney and at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster. Currently, she is a DAAD post-doctoral fellow at Humboldt-Universität in Berlin. Her research interests range from classical German philosophy to the contemporary theories of truth and the metaphilosophical debate. She published the volume Il pensiero della cosa. Wahrheit hegeliana e Identity Theory of Truth (Verifiche 2016), which is the reworked version of her doctoral dissertation. She is also the Italian co-translator of the volume La realtà dello spirito. Studi su Hegel by M. Quante (FrancoAngeli 2016).

ANTONIO NUNZIANTE is associate professor in theoretical philosophy in the Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education and Applied Psychology at the University of Padova. His academic interests are classical German philosophy (Hegel, Kant), early Modern philosophy (Leibniz), contemporary American naturalism and Sellarsian studies. His most recent publications include a survey on American pre-analytic naturalism and the edition of a book on Sellars and the history of modern philosophy.

FEDERICO ORSINI obtained his PhD in philosophy from the University of Padova in 2014. In 2015 he has been awarded a PNPD/CAPES post-doctoral fellowship at the PUCRS (Brazil), where he has been member of an international group which has recently concluded the first complete translation of Hegel’s Science of Logic into Portuguese. Since 2018, he is Assistant Professor in the post-degree program in Philosophy at the PUCRS. His areas of research include German Idealism, history of metaphysics and practical philosophy. His area of specialization is the study of the reconstruction of ontology within the systematic projects of classical German philosophy. Besides the Portuguese translation, he has published several articles on topics concerning his area of specialization. Since 2018, he is involved in the project of a new complete translation (4 vols.) of Hegel’s Science of Logic into Italian.

FEDERICO SANGUINETTI completed a Cotutelle Doctoral Degree Program under the joint supervision of the University of Padova and the University of Münster. He is currently post-doc researcher at the Rio de Janeiro State University (UERJ). He specializes in classical German philosophy and contemporary epistemology. In particular, his research has focused on the relation between Hegel’s theory of sensation and McDowell’s theory of perception. He has published several articles on Hegel and topics related to his area of specialization.

ELENA TRIPALDI is a PhD student in Philosophy at the University of Padua. Her research project is dedicated to the relationship between speculative logic and history in Hegel. She has been visiting student at Freie Universitaet Berlin. During her MA she has been a “BU Study Abroad” bursary at Boston University. Her research interests include classical German philosophy (especially Hegel), the contemporary debate on ontology and metaphysics and American neo-pragmatism.